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Canada abuzz over purported crack video of mayor
World Comments Updated: May 18, 2013 12:06amBy ROB GILLIES
Associated Press
TORONTO — A video purportedly of Toronto Mayor Rob Ford smoking crack has caused an uproar in Canada. Ford on Friday called the allegations “ridiculous...
Cambodian factory collapse kills two
World Comments Updated: May 17, 2013 12:06amBy SOPHENG CHEANG
Associated Press
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — The ceiling of a Cambodian factory that makes Asics sneakers collapsed on workers early Thursday, killing two people and...
Syrian gov’t troops retake prison from rebel fighters
World Comments Updated: May 17, 2013 12:06amBy ZEINA KARAM
Associated Press
BEIRUT — Syrian government troops on Thursday flushed out rebels who had stormed a prison compound in the northern city of Aleppo in a bid to free...
Russia says alleged spying case was second this year
World Comments Updated: May 16, 2013 12:06amBy JIM HEINTZ
Associated Press
MOSCOW — A Russian security services operative — his features bathed in shadows — went on state television Wednesday to claim that the U.S. diplomat who...
Palestinians mark 1948 displacement
World Comments Updated: May 16, 2013 12:06amBy MOHAMMED
DARAGHMEH
Associated Press
RAMALLAH, West Bank — Tens of thousands of Palestinians marked the 65th anniversary of their mass displacement during the war over Israel’...
UN OKs resolution on Syria
World Comments Updated: May 16, 2013 12:06amBy EDITH M. LEDERER
Associated Press
UNITED NATIONS — The U.N. General Assembly approved an Arab-backed resolution Wednesday calling for a political transition in Syria, but more than...
Geneva auction sells huge diamond for $26.7M
World Comments Updated: May 16, 2013 12:06amBy JOHN HEILPRIN
Associated Press
GENEVA — A huge diamond unearthed in Botswana commanded an unearthly price of $26.7 million from Christie’s auction house Wednesday amid the spring...
Minority resists evacuation order
World Comments Updated: May 16, 2013 12:06amBy TIM SULLIVAN
Associated Press
SITTWE, Myanmar — The cyclone was only a day or two away, churning through the Indian Ocean and carrying with it winds and rains that authorities...
Mayor: WWII sex slaves were necessary
World Comments Updated: May 15, 2013 12:05amBy MALCOLM FOSTER
Associated Press
TOKYO — An outspoken nationalist mayor said the Japanese military’s forced prostitution of Asian women before and during World War II was necessary...
Eviction fears haunt Haiti quake camps
World Comments Updated: May 15, 2013 12:05amBy TRENTON DANIEL
Associated Press
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Attorney Reynold Georges showed up with a judge and a police officer on a recent afternoon at Camp Acra, a cluster of tents...
